You are all dirty and grungy. You go step in the shower and you come out clean. When you enter into the white light, it does something to you.
The average individual spends many, many lifetimes meditating and seeking and chewing bubblegum and doing things like that to attain the experience of samadhi.
Eventually you will go into samadhi. Samadhi is a very advanced meditation. You dissolve into the clear light of eternity again and again.
Salvakalpa samadhi is absorption in eternity to the point where there is no real concept of self but there’s still a karmic chain. Nirvikalpa samadhi is absorption in nirvana; concepts of self and no-self go away completely.
If a person sets out to practice meditation in this lifetime and they have a little bit of spiritual evolution behind them and they’re quite dedicated, it really is not at all an impossible task to enter into salvakalpa samadhi in this particular lifetime.
For years and years you enter into samadhi every day in order to attain liberation. Eternity fashions a new self which you find yourself with when you come out of samadhi. Each time you come out a little less, you might say, or your real self comes out a little more.
Salvakalpa samadhi is a tremendous acceptance and liberation, but it is not complete absorption in nirvana, in that consciousness.
The final entrance into Nirvikalpa Samadhi, into nirvana, God-realization, when you become the absolutely best friend of God, can only come when your love is completely pure.
Nirvikalpa samadhi is another matter. I don’t feel that’s really up to us. That happens at a certain time when our being has gone through countless changes and refinements.
There is a big difference between the lower samadhis and the upper samadhis, like the difference between the Sierras and the Himalayas.
Salvakalpa samadhi is like a sea of perfect light; nirvikalpa samadhi is no light, no darkness, no way to describe it. Absorption is complete, that’s nirvana.
The teaching process becomes most interesting for spiritual seekers once they’ve managed to hit the lower samadhis. However at that point many seekers become very egotistical.
They reach the point where they feel, “I can go into samadhi now. I can do everything on my own,” and that’s exactly where they stay, in the lower samadhis. There are many, many people on this earth who can go into salvakalpa samadhi.
Once you become very powerful and advanced, you must be willing to go back to school and start over, and go to a wise person who will show you the way. Very few people are willing to do that.
That’s why their realization is not integrated and complete, and they must go through many, many lifetimes very often before that acceptance will take place.
Nirvikalpa samadhi is another matter. In order to enter into nirvikalpa samadhi, you must have a great deal of humility.
When you eneter into samadhi and seek to make that magical walk between salvikalpa and nirvikalpa samadhi, it’s necessary to focus your awareness not on being or nonbeing.
You must realize you are not the doer, that you are not the action.
Now that you’ve reached everything, you must slay this illusion without slaying it – without becoming caught up in the illusion of slaying illusions.
Nirvikalpa Samadhi means that you’ve gone off the board; you’ve gone off the map. There is no way to describe it. You have attained liberation and are no longer bound by the cycle of existence. You just are, and yet you’re not, at the same time.